Grace Notes on Disgraced
My review of the season-opening Long Wharf production of Disgraced, for the New Haven Independent, is here. Here are a few additional comments: It’s a finely balanced, beautifully paced production […]
The Young Actors Drama Group Theater Conflict
Another Archie theater reference, from the brand new issue of Jughead and Archie Comics Double Digest, #16. Longtime Archie chronicler Dick Malmgren (who passed away in 1992) penned this story, […]
The Other Goosebumps Show
Saw the Goosebumps film over the weekend with my children, and I couldn’t stop me thinking about a theatrical Goosebumps production of 1998 which was much truer to R.L. Stine’s […]
Three More for Square One
Square One Theatre’s 2015-16 season begins early next month with Bill C. Davis’ Mass Appeal. It’s Davis’ biggest hit, a small-theater staple that had a Broadway run in 1982 […]
The Archers’ Theatricals
I’ve been a faithful listener to The Archers for decades. I got hooked when I would visit my grandmother in England in the mid-1990s. Then I used to have […]
Betty & Veronica, or Beatrice and Viola?
In “Royal Treatment,” the opening story of the Sept. 1989 issue of Betty & Veronica (Vol. 2, #23), our adventurous heroines recognize “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” […]
Miller Airtime
BBC Radio 4 is in the midst of airing an original four-part biographical drama about Arthur Miller, narrated by Ed Harris and starring Ben Feldman as Miller. The project is […]
“Besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to con it. “
There’s quite a lot of theater talk on the Penn’s Sunday School podcast administered by Penn Jillette on the Carolla Digital Network (easily available at iTunes and elsewhere). One […]
Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower Lights Up Long Wharf in 2016
Thisjust in: The Long Wharf Theatre, which has done two Steve Martin plays in recent seasons, has been given the opportunity to world-premiere Martin’s latest work, Meteor Shower. The show, […]
Hirschfeld Rocks
Al also recognized how rock music had changed. “The Seventies was also a time when rock theatricality was bigger than Broadway theatricality,” he said in 1999. “Those rolling lights-and-sound shows […]